KENNEDY, Justice.
This case involves an issue of first impression in Alabama concerning pretextual arrests.
The dispositive issue is whether the defendant's confession should have been suppressed on the basis that his confession was the product of an illegal pretextual arrest. More specifically, should the defendant's voluntary admission to the killing be excluded from evidence because the police arrested the defendant under an outstanding warrant for a different...
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